Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also greatly strengthened Leftist morale. The Basque lines again held firm, pushing back General Mola's men at several points. Then came a bit of news even more galling to the pride of Benito Mussolini than the rout at Brihuega. In an attempt to encircle Bilbao Italian troops pushed ahead. One Italian brigade reached the port of Bermeo eight miles from the capital on the Biscay coast, captured it. Here they were counterattacked by Basque militia, for the most part fishermen and their armed wives. When the Italians broke ranks, the bloodthirsty fishwives chased them into houses, beat them...
...Like Dell, the old woodpulp publishing firm of Street & Smith keeps a weather eye cocked for new fields to enter. Street & Smith's new picture magazine is a large rotogravure publication exclusively devoted to sport. Launched as a monthly for a dime, Pic offers twelve issues for a dollar, presents action shots of current stars like Joe Di Maggio, Joe Louis, Jim Braddock, oldtimers like Annette Kellerman and Hans ("Honus"') Wagner. Idea of Pic came from its business manager, young A. Lawrence Holmes, Princetonian son of S. & S.'s Vice President Artemas Holmes...
...send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. told how he settled a sit-down by CIO "brigands." With comfort they listened to a running fire of legal advice on the Wagner Act by John D. Black, member of the Chicago law firm of Silas Hardy Strawn, potent onetime president of the Chamber. Might they fire sit-downers? someone asked. Replied Lawyer Black, eyes flashing...
...every corner of the nation. In recent years the practice of a twenty-fifth reunion has done splendid work in bringing back to the confines of Harvard, men in all walks of life, in all callings and in every profession. Holders of vastly different political creeds and men firm in varied social and moral beliefs have met and renewed acquaintances and friendships here, twenty-five years before, they roamed, and worked and played and progressed along the academic path each according to his own ability and chosen technique...
...many an enemy. One of the oldest enemies is U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings. Mr. Cummings' enmity dates to the early 19203 when he was practicing law in Stamford. Conn. At that time he took a legal trouncing in a suit against Alcoa. Later his law firm represented Baush Machine Too! Co. in its prolonged efforts to recover from Alcoa $9,000,000 in triple damages for as an impressive a list of unfair trade practices as ever brightened a docket. In the end the famed Baush case was settled out of court, but meantime Mr. Cummings...